Crafty Christine

Monday, September 13, 2010

Last December I had a cookie exchange. This was my first time to have one. I had always wanted to have one but I thought that it was time to have another one. I sent my invitations at the first of November. I really didn't have a good turnout, but those who attended had a great time and those who didn't come missed out!
Here is a great link on cookie exchanges and swaps,http://www.chsugar.com/cookieswap/.

The cookies that my cousin brought. It was my aunt's idea to bring them in cute Christmas takeout boxes! What a great idea!

Monday, March 15, 2010

I think this is a picture of my 2nd or 3rd try at making my grandma's biscuits. They are slowly but surely getting better. The 1st time that I made them, they were pretty terrible. I haven't made any in the past few weeks because we have been working on the kitchen. I can still cook in there, but not a full blown meal or something that requires extra room like biscuits.

These are the burp clothes that I made for my friend Mandy and her little boy PJ. They were super easy to make. I just used wonder under to stick the two ribbons together and then used a glue gun to put the larger ribbon onto the hand towel.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

After I decided to do this magazine recipe challenge. I thought, how am I going to get all of this food to make the dishes? Well, I'm going to stock up my kitchen first. I live in my grandma's house now, so we have all the tools and goods, but I need more things. Yes, I do grocery shop, but I know there's more to get at the store. (I'm starving, so that's why I'm rambling.)

Another reason why I've decided to do this, well there's a couple more reasons. First of all, it's healthy. I know the prices for the dishes are reasonable. The magazines are all aware that we all can't afford big complicated food all the time, plus we don't have the time for that!

I know it will expensive and not really cost effective to buy all of these things at once, so I'll probably go to the discount grocery store to buy my canned foods and then eventually buy the vegetables when I know I am going to use them. It will be great to have these things in my pantry and freezer.